Waste Pickers and Their Practices of Insurgency and Environmental Stewardship.

IF 2.3 3区社会学 Q2 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Journal of Environment & Development Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Epub Date: 2021-10-20 DOI:10.1177/10704965211055328

Jutta Gutberlet, Santiago Sorroche, Angela Martins Baeder, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos

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Informed by different grassroots learning and educational practices engaged in waste management, and drawing from the concepts of insurgent citizenship and environmental stewardship, we examine the role of waste picker organizations and movements in creating new pathways towards more sustainable environmental waste governance. Two case studies (Argentina and Brazil) demonstrate how waste pickers inform and educate the general public and raise the awareness of socio-environmental questions related to waste management. Different educational practices are used as strategies to confront citizens with their waste: to see waste as a consumption problem, resource, and income source. Our paper draws on grassroots learning (social movement learning and insurgent learning) and education (stewardship) aimed at the transformation of waste practices. We argue that waste pickers play an important role in knowledge production promoting recycling, in landfilling less and recovering more resources. We conclude that waste pickers act as insurgent citizens and also are environmental stewards.

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拾荒者及其叛乱行为和环境管理。

通过不同的基层学习和废物管理教育实践，并借鉴叛乱公民和环境管理的概念，我们研究了废物收集组织和运动在创造更可持续的环境废物治理新途径中的作用。两个案例研究(阿根廷和巴西)展示了拾荒者如何向公众提供信息和教育，并提高对与废物管理有关的社会环境问题的认识。不同的教育实践被用作策略，以使公民面对他们的浪费:将废物视为消费问题，资源和收入来源。我们的论文借鉴了基层学习(社会运动学习和叛乱学习)和教育(管理)，旨在改变浪费做法。我们认为，拾荒者在知识生产、促进循环利用、减少填埋和回收更多资源方面发挥着重要作用。我们的结论是，拾荒者既是反叛的公民，也是环境的管家。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Environment & Development seeks to further research and debate on the nexus of environment and development issues at the local, national, regional, and international levels. The journal provides a forum that bridges the parallel debates among policy makers, attorneys, academics, business people, and NGO activists from all regions of the world. The journal invites submissions in such topics areas as the interaction between trade and environment; the role of local, national, regional, and international institutions in environmental governance; analysis of international environmental agreements; the impact of environmental regulation on investment policy; legal and scientific issues related to sustainable development.